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THK BIHTH OF A NATION.To the Editor: It may be considered the limit of egotism for anyone to criticise the above named play after its apparent endorsement by so many of the pood people who have flocked to Sioux Falls to view this misnamed film. That it is a wonderful production there is no ques-| tion, but like the gilded saloon, or the palatial brothel it is all the morepernicious and misleading because concealed by its gaudy trappings. That this vilification of the north, this insult to the old soldier, this perversion of history, this effort to make * treason respectable and midnight assassins patriots and that this should all be received as gospel truth by our preachers, our teachers and worst of all that it should be put before our school children as historic truth, is a disgrace to the people of South Dakota and a stigma on our Intelligence. The animus of the whole thing Is to discredit the north and glorify the south. It Is in line with the bill now before congress to I pay the old confederate soldier $500 bounty and $30 per month during life. It would put a monument to Jeff Davis in the rapitol at Washing- [ ton and it has already put up a monument to that brute Wirt*, of An-dersonvllle prison. Instead of the “birth of a nation” It Is a bitter wail at the death of negro slavery and a most cunning scheme to hoodwink the rising generation, that they may not see the venom of the rebellion.If you for a minute think the “Ku Klux KlanM were model citizens engaged in commendable home missionwork, read the following from Mr. Ilurton, in the National Tribune:“The films showed a wonderful exhibition of “night riders’* or “The Ku Klux Klan, and the text represented them to be brave men trying to save southern civilization.“The only case of a demonstrationof these night riders in their costumes that I knew of In a residence of seven years among them, was at EutiW, Ala., near where I lived. Five or six colored men had been killed for attending a republican convention. Three of the bodies had been found in an abandoned well. Alexander Boyd, the county solicitor or state’s attorney, as we call them, had secured some evidence against
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Madison Daily Leader
Madison, South Dakota, US
Fri, Mar 31, 1916
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